Letters to the Editor1996

This page contains letters of comment published in 1996. As in the main
letter column page the letters are in reverse order of arrival, i.e., the
latest comes first. As you read through the page you are going back in time.
For your convenience here is an index to persons having written:

Index of contributors

Just wanted you to know the all your christian stuff is crap, from what
I just read and what I've read of the bible the only thing I see is a damn
fairy-tale. wake up

Apparently there is a breed of angry atheists who are
allergic to preacher-talk, so allergic that when they encounter
any they sneeze violently and their brains fly out their nose.
Our Romi seems to be one of them. I'm not sure what rattled his
cage but you might look at the religion
page and take a guess.

this web site is obviously done by some hypocritical old fart , acid was
the 60's and marijuana is the biggest drug of the 90's . Your choice for
a 90's accomplishment sucks too.

For the bewildered, Lanny is evidently referring to a page in the
humor section entitled
Recent Generations Compared. Go read it
and then come back and read his letter. It boggles the mind to
imagine what he thought of the rest of the site. Congratulations,
Lanny, you just won my "best letter of the year" award.

Reading about Roland
reminded me of the real reason why the
ancient Egyptians built such large pyramids--the poor state of
their shaving metallurgy. To keep a bronze razor sharp enough
to shave pharoah's beard and hair comfortably and safely really
did require a multi-megaton pyramid. Now, with vanadium
stainless steel, we can get the same effect with a pyramid a
few inches on a side.

You don't know me. I stumbled upon yr homepage. Perhaps God sent me
there, although I doubt it. I fell off my chair when I saw the Bottom
95% sigil and knew that I was in a Good Place.

I look forward to reading through the links...

A man of character and discernment I see. I will have you
know sir that I am not. If I were it would be a point of
pride to resist the blandishments of those who hand out these
little puffs of egocentric glory. The truth is more sordid.
I tried to sell out and nobody would buy. No advertiser has
appeared whispering soft words and brandishing large checks.
For all that Magellan knows I am an uncharted island. I can't
even join the underground; they told me "subterranean is one
thing, dead and buried is something else, and your site is
certainly something else".

Damien, by the bye, is an Australian SF author of note;
his home page
is worth a visit.

That ruse was used for the invasion of Sicily to make
the Germans think the invasion was aimed at Sardinia.
Re-read the book.

Shame

The Evial ARL

The evial Dr. Lewis is, as is his wont, correct. The British
ran a number of scams during WW II. If memory serves me correctly
it was the connection through Cicero in which the false invasion
plans were planted. [But I do remember that Cicero was paid off
with counterfeit money by the Germans.] The British also ran a
scam which misplaced where the invasion of North Africa occurred.
Sir, you have this atrocious habit of ruining perfectly good
stories with sordid facts. I suppose I will have to correct the page.

Nice fence; what do you intend to corral here? *Science* fiction? Sci
fantasy? Social fantasy?

Thank ye kindly. I expect I'll roll in some fan history --
how I became a little-name fan and found gafiation. As the
mood strikes me I'll reprint some essays I have written in
the past, do some think pieces, write some reviews, do some
futurology, deplore the lamentable habits of the young, that
sort of thing, don't you know. The emphasis will definitely
be on *science* fiction. I may also do a Georgette Heyer home
page.

My guess is, sci fi with the accent on the science. Enjoyed your
posted articles on the Piltdown man. Was fascinated by the 70's
articles trying to reconcile the forgery when new discoveries in
Africa seemed just as fantastic. The more recent article last year in
Discover captured my attention again. And a pointer to your page from
a listserv got me here. Will be visiting again to see what else you
post.

Do drop in from time to time. As the Motel 6 man says, We'll
leave the light on. The Piltdown man page was a lot of fun to
write. It has a certain modest popularity; between my copy and
the mirrored copy in the talk.origins archive pilty gets about
15 hits a day.

There is no way of knowing what will show up next. If you had
told me when I started the site that I would have a semi-definitive
page on the Piltdown man hoax I would have looked at you blankly
and said "Huh?". I started out with a picture of what the site
would look like and how it would be laid out but it hasn't quite worked
out that way.